NGP Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Palo Alto, United States

Total investments

179

Average round size

37M

Portfolio companies

115

Rounds per year

9.42

Lead investments

43

Follow on index

0.36

Exits

44

Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetTransportationSoftwareRetailMobileArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSaaSAdvertising

Summary

NGP Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2005. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Palo Alto. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Fitness, Mobile Apps. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Xiaomi, Lime, Deliveroo.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the NGP Capital, startups are often financed by Index Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sequoia Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, Vertex Ventures Israel. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Qualcomm Ventures, Intel Capital, Vertex Ventures Israel.

The current fund was established by John Gardner, Paul Asel. We also calculated 5 valuable employees in our database.

The average startup value when the investment from NGP Capital is 100-500 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 19 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. This NGP Capital works on 1 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2011.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
B2B/EnterpriseManufacturingCybersecurityCloud/Infrastructure
Stage focus
Series ASeries BSeries CPre-IPO
Geo focus
AlbaniaAustriaBelgiumBosnia and HerzegovinaBulgaria Show 50 more
Check size
5M — 10M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 400000000
Fund raised date
2022-02-04

Analytics

Total investments
179
Lead investments
43
Exits
44
Rounds per year
9.42
Follow on index
0.36
Investments by industry
  • Software (50)
  • Mobile (36)
  • Internet (35)
  • E-Commerce (24)
  • Artificial Intelligence (21)
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Investments by region
  • United States (79)
  • China (22)
  • India (21)
  • Germany (12)
  • United Kingdom (3)
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Peak activity year
2014
Number of Unicorns
5
Number of Decacorns
6
Number of Minotaurs
4

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
12
Avg. valuation at time of investment
637M
Group Appearance index
0.91
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
4.34
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
GrayMatter Robotics 20 Jun 2024 Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotics Early Stage Venture 45M United States, California, Los Angeles
Synergies Intelligent Systems 11 May 2022 Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Big Data, Business Intelligence Early Stage Venture 12M United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge

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